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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...celebration of an end to the violence may be premature. "The fellow they caught, Boualen Bensaid, is a main operative within the organization," says Crumley. "He is basically a coordinator among the various 'cells' of the group. But the GIA will always have people eager to step in and fill the void. I would expect the attacks to continue until the Algerian elections later this month." Police said Bensaid, 28, was arrested as he gave orders to plant a bomb in an open air market in Lille, a city in the north of France...
This demographic obsession is one reason why so many shows have scenes set in coffee bars. Another, more telling explanation is that TV producers, lacking the budgets for car crashes and Bruce Willis, fill up a lot of airtime by having characters sit around and gab; talk, in production terms, is cheap. A virtue of this necessity is that it allows writers the luxury of exploring the ins and outs of characters and relationships in ways that feature films--certainly mainstream studio films--rarely do anymore...
Fineberg predicts that without a change in retirement policy; 2.5 people will fill a given faculty slot over the next century--down 1.0 from the last century...
...Common Ground," Oct. 25) is so replete with contradictions and half-truths that we are almost reluctant to dignify it with a response. As if equating the Harvard Black Students Association with the Ku Klux Klan were not enough to completely discredit his argument, Star goes on to fill his lengthy article with multiple inane, illogical assertions. He begins by stating that we, as Americans, are "stuck in the tradition...of judging other people by their color." He later contends in his conclusion that "racism merely pervades the outer fringes of American society, not its core." Clearly, these are irreconcilable...
...think we have the skills and the personnel to continue to do great. Recruiting-wise we are getting stronger. We will lose three seniors that are important to this team, but if we can fill their positions I think we can only get better...